FREIGHTS TO DOMINION.
MANUFACTURERS COMPLAIN. / CHARGE AGAINST SHIPOWNERS. (Received Mav 8, 8.45 p.m.) LONDON. May 8. " British ships are carrying British goods to New Zealand at a freight rate from 50 to 125 per cent, higher than British ships are carrying American goods from New York to New Zealand." is the charge contained iri a memorandum by a group of important British manufacturers submitted (o the Board of Trade.
This, says the Daily Express, is the first stop in the war between industrialists and the shipping conferences, who are blamed for thus blocking the expansion of British export trade. Tha Daily Express interviewed other manufacturers, who complain that the .Argentine trade is similarly hampered byhigh freights.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20868, 9 May 1931, Page 9
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